Loadout: Dartmoor Winter Hike
I particularly love it when a regular reader and guest contributor decides to share the contents of their pack. Here’s a recent loadout from Jed Edwards…
This kit is set up for a day’s trekking across Dartmoor in late November, and is mostly focused on keeping me warm and sheltered, as exposure is a real risk in that environment. The pack is a little heavier than it could have been but as I’ve explained before I like to let the weight keep me warm when I’m moving. I was very glad of the heavy fleece when I stopped for lunch and my core temperature started to drop.
The kit mostly filled my Mystery Ranch Sweet Pea, with my chest pack fitting nicely behind the Stick-it attachment when I wasn’t wearing it. My chestpack is a Tactical Tailor Mini-mav with a Bulle UK Fatback pouch molle’d to the front.
Kit List, From the Top:
- Stanley One-hand bottle (black coffee) UK – Buy here
- Snacks (peanuts/raisins, snickers bar)
- Patagonia Trucker Hat
- Sealskinz Activity gloves
- Dutch Army Surplus canteen
- Stanley 295ml food jar (w/ baked beans!)
- Triple 7 Gear MK7 (with usual kit)
- Eurohike orange survival bag (had for years, never needed)
- RAVpower 10400MaH battery pack
- RecycledFirefighter Inspector w/moleskine
- Exped Dry bag (w/ Dexshell socks, shemagh, spare fleece hat)
- GITD Nalgene w/ PaceLid
- Highlander Mission Fleece
- Ordnance Survey OL28
- Olivon 7×30 WP binoculars
- Dutch Army gtx trousers
- Editor addition (/shameless plug): Pack Config Recon Patch
Editor: Unfortunately the only place to the Sweet Pea now is on either eBay. You may also be able to pick up one second hand on The Perfect Pack Facebook group.
